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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
A caveat: a very recent study refined that premise, demonstrating that only when too many choices induce anxiety is this really an issue. The main driving factor appears to be time as you say... which makes perfect sense. If I have days to decide, 20 choices is great. If I have mere minutes, not so much.

But I'm in alignment anyway. 60 "varieties" of toothpaste on my grocer's shelf is about 50 too many IMO.
I don't think it's just short time that makes people fear choice. See the old book Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm for why people often prefer dictatorship, which is the perfect analogy to Apple, I think.